Chapter 122 - 115: Do You Want to Take On a Nation Alone?

Chapter 122: Chapter 115: Do You Want to Take On a Nation Alone?

"Shoot them!!"

This order to fire arrows undoubtedly included an order to kill Chen Sha, the Dao Yi Sect Leader.

Although Tan Xuanyi had just been stuck on the roof by Yuu Miaolian’s Qi Stealing Technique, his peripheral vision hadn’t missed the sight of the God Catcher—the Court’s publicly acknowledged number one expert—being beaten half to death by Chen Sha in just three moves.

Therefore, after his lucky escape, his greatest fear was that Chen Sha would immediately come after him. Terrified, he instantly shouted the order to fire!

Over a thousand iron cavalrymen, each carrying a quiver of arrows—this was the Court’s most powerful force! No matter how formidable Martial Arts experts were, they could not withstand ten thousand arrows fired at once!

The Golden Iron Cavalry hesitated for a moment, but none had the courage to ask, "What if we also shoot Zuo Qiantang beside Yuu Miaolian?" Clearly, at this point, it was no longer just an issue concerning a Minister of the Ministry of Justice.

With tacit understanding, everyone’s eyes turned cold as they quickly drew their bows. From a hundred yards away, they unleashed a rain of arrows. Dense like dark clouds blotting out the sun, the volley blanketed the area where Chen Sha, Yuu Miaolian, Nie Zhengfeng, and Zuo Qiantang stood. It was an indiscriminate, sweeping bombardment!

"Second Sister, protect yourself!"

Chen Sha’s eyes flashed. He wasn’t worried about being injured by this so-called rain of arrows, but he feared for Yuu Miaolian’s safety. Thus, as the arrows rained down, he dashed forward, stopping a few dozen feet in front of her. Spreading his hands out, one high and one low, he unleashed his surging Great Yellow Court Power, forming a circular golden Qi Wall over a hundred feet wide and thirty feet high!

In an instant, nearly a third of the locust-like swarm of arrows struck the golden Qi Wall.

SWISH SWISH SWISH!

As the terrifying volley hit the Qi Wall, the arrowheads pierced the True Qi one by one but could not penetrate it!

On Yuu Miaolian’s side, she had just clashed head-on with Nie Zhengfeng. Grabbing and sticking to his spear, she followed up with a backhand strike, slapping her palm directly toward his head.

The Soft Hedgehog Armor did not protect the head.

Feeling the lethal Palm Wind approaching, fear finally surfaced in Nie Zhengfeng’s eyes. Without Tan Xuanyi to share the pressure, facing Yuu Miaolian—who was utilizing the Qi Stealing Technique with her newly absorbed Power from an Innate Expert—he had absolutely no chance of winning. Even lifting his arm felt as if it were filled with mercury, heavy as a mountain.

THUD!

In a flash, Yuu Miaolian’s palm smashed into his skull, killing him instantly on the roof.

Almost simultaneously, hearing Tan Xuanyi’s order to "fire" and Chen Sha’s warning, Yuu Miaolian instinctively hoisted Nie Zhengfeng’s dead body in front of her as a shield.

SWISH! SWISH! SWISH SWISH!!

Even though Chen Sha’s massive, towering Qi Wall blocked half of the thousands of arrows, some still rained down on Yuu Miaolian. However, they only turned the lower half of Nie Zhengfeng’s corpse—her makeshift shield—into a pincushion. The arrows that struck his upper body were all deflected away. The defensive capability of the Soft Hedgehog Armor was simply too strong.

However, Yuu Miaolian’s expression changed when she looked at Zuo Qiantang. Her captive hostage, whom she had left on the roof, was not so fortunate. In a split second, he was struck by over a dozen arrows. His eyes widened in disbelief as he stared at the Golden Cavalry who had just shot him. The poor man had his acupoints sealed. Though his aged eyes bulged and his mouth gaped open, he couldn’t let out a single scream before being instantly killed by the volley of arrows on the roof.

Seeing that a full volley of arrows hadn’t harmed Chen Sha and Yuu Miaolian—the two main culprits—in the slightest, Tan Xuanyi gritted his teeth and roared, "Keep shooting! I don’t believe a First-Grade Great Innate’s True Qi is endless enough to sustain a Qi Wall forever!!"

The sound of bows being drawn echoed again as a second wave of arrows fell upon Chen Sha and Yuu Miaolian. This was quickly followed by a third wave, then a fourth...

These cavalrymen were the elite of the elite. They took turns firing, leaving no gap between the volleys. The dark rain of arrows in the sky seemed endless, continuously smashing into the golden Qi Wall sustained by Chen Sha!

Even water dripping continuously on the same spot of a stone could eventually wear it away, let alone a relentless barrage of arrows. Sure enough, some arrows hitting the exact same spots on Chen Sha’s Qi Wall managed to tear through the barrier and struck his Physique!

Tan Xuanyi’s face lit up with pleasant surprise. He thought, "Who said a First-Grade Great Innate is a god? A volley of ten thousand arrows can still..."

But in the very next second, his train of thought froze. He watched as the small cluster of arrows that pierced the Qi Wall merely poked a dozen small holes in Chen Sha’s Daoist Robe. When they struck Chen Sha’s body, they were deflected right off, as if his skin were covered in its own layer of Soft Hedgehog Armor.

"Is... is that really a body of flesh and blood?!" Tan Xuanyi was horrified, unable to believe his eyes.

Arrows were actually bouncing off skin.

It wasn’t as if he hadn’t seen a First-Grade Great Innate before. But even at that level, an expert’s Qi Power merely resonated with nature and the world. They weren’t gods; they still had bodies of flesh and blood. How could arrows penetrate a True Qi barrier only to be stopped completely by bare skin?

Out of the corner of his eye, Chen Sha noticed that the arrows striking his skin only left tiny white marks, failing to penetrate.

Once awakened, each of the Twenty-four Gods of the Great Yellow Court provided a tremendous boost to one’s Physique. Among them was a Divine Spirit named Tongzhong Zhong, courtesy name Dao Lian, represented by the color yellow.

This was the God of Skin!

With this god awakened, Chen Sha’s skin had become completely invulnerable, capable of withstanding the hacking, slashing, and smashing of most conventional cold weapons without a single scratch.

Just as Tan Xuanyi felt he was looking at an inhuman entity, the worst possible news came from the thousand-plus cavalrymen of the Imperial City Department: "Director, we’re almost out of arrows..."

Tan Xuanyi’s mind buzzed.

Dozens of feet away, Chen Sha also heard this. His body suddenly launched into the air. Pushing forward with both hands, the seven or eight thousand arrows embedded in his golden Qi Wall instantly collapsed, clattering to the ground to form a pile twenty feet high, like stacked firewood.

Moving swiftly, Chen Sha landed on the roof. He grabbed Yuu Miaolian, ripped the Soft Hedgehog Armor off Nie Zhengfeng’s body, and said, "Let’s go! Come with me to pick up Third Senior Brother!"

Seeing that Chen Sha wasn’t rushing over to slaughter them after the arrows were exhausted, but was instead taking Yuu Miaolian away, Tan Xuanyi was momentarily confused. But then he saw the direction Chen Sha was heading. It was... the Imperial Palace!

Realizing Chen Sha’s insane goal, Tan Xuanyi felt his head might explode. He roared, "You... do you really intend to take on an entire country by yourself?"